Projects

Current

CMI in Science Education

Educational use of computational metaphor identification to foster critical thinking about metaphors and creative generation of alternative metaphors in the context of science education.

metaViz

Applying computational metaphor identification to poltical blogs in order to find potential conceptual metaphors underlying those blogs. Link: metaviz.ics.uci.edu.

Computational Metaphor Identification

The development of computational techniques to identify potential conceptual metaphors in written text.

Blog Readers

Studies exploring blogging from reader's perspectives, as well as developing tools aimed at blog readers.


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Smarter Blogroll

Socially-scoped topic extraction to enable more manageable, navigable, and transparent blogrolls.

Scenario Visualization

Using graphically animated computational agents to visualize software scenarios.

Normative Echoes

A character-based installation that explores the formation of norms in society while simultaneously combining notions of player-generated content and procedural content manipulation.

EcoRaft (external site no longer maintained)

An interactive installation designed to help children learn about restoration ecology.

Synthetic Social Interaction

Systems that simulate various social dynamics, exploring how high-level societal patterns emerge from low-level interactions.